Wednesday, June 15, 2011

WEB BOHEMIAN (Wednesday, June 15, 2011)
(1)– COMMONLY HELD MYTHS IN SCOTLAND -- The Food Standards Agency said that more than half of those surveyed in Scotland believed they could tell if food was safe to eat by its smell or appearance.

(2)- POLICE REPORT – Louisiana police slammed a 67-year-old man into the ground, arresting him over a questionable traffic violation. The state court of appeals rules that Calvin D. Miller's injuries were only worth $25,000 in compensation.

(3)- LYING -- If art is a kind of lying, then lying is a form of art, albeit of a lower order—as Oscar Wilde and Mark Twain have observed. Both liars and artists refuse to accept the tyranny of reality.

(4)- FILM HISTORY -- Marking three decades since Scorsese and De Niro combined to introduce us to Jake La Motta in Raging Bull, however, we are talking about the next level of cinema - one of the high water marks of modern film making.

(5)- IMPERIAL MEASURE REBIRTH -- Despite four decades of attempts to make the Brith peoples go fully metric, most of them in the UK still feel more comfortable buying food in pounds and ounces.

(6)- FASCINATING – Nearly 150 years ago a German biologist asserted ‘ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny’: in other words, morphological changes that occur during an organism’s embryonic development mirror its evolutionary history.

(7)- QUANTIFYING LITERATURE -- How many words does the average novel’s protagonist speak? By posing this and other questions, Franco Moretti has become the unofficial leader of a new, more quantitative kind of literary study.

(8)- INTERNET AND MIND CONTROL -- Dr. Theodore Berger has worked at making a neural prosthetic for more than three decades; now implanting a device into rats to bypasses a damaged hippocampus in the brain and work in its place.

(9)- E.B. WHITE – He knew how to increase egg production, Dock a lamb's tail. Yet, without a flicker of what a psychologist would call cognitive dissonance, he also saw animals as personality-rich companions on his own fanciful journey.

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